#pushing

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#given #human #i #many #other

Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#anybody #business #extremely #i #know

Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#pushing-the-limits #art

I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what I imagine he does when we're not together." "And what is that?" prodded the stout man. "He's a superhero who saves people in danger, because he saved me and my brother from dying in a fire a couple of years ago. Noah is better than Batman." The crowd chuckled. "I love you, too, lil'bro. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#katie-mcgarry #little-brother #noah-hutchins #pushing-the-limits #sweet

It wasn't until my last year of college, 1976, that I decided well, maybe he's right. Delbert had been pushing me since high school to put 100% into my music. ↗

— Cheryl Lynn

#college #decided #had #high #high school

In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year. ↗

— Judd Rose

#bush #buttons #campaign #coded #course

Kids need to open up to their parents. And parents should realize that when kids are pushing you away, that's the time to really step in. ↗

— Alexa Vega

#kids #need #open #parents #pushing

First, we have to lower our costs to levels that are more competitive. This will prevent the lower-cost airlines from pushing us out of the markets we want to serve. We've made great progress on this front, but we need to keep pushing. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#competitive #costs #first #front #great

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. ↗

— Howard Dean

#capital #going #harder #investing #makes

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#could #definitely #direction #i #just